Background
Barnes, Lemuel Call was born on November 6, 1854 in Kirtland, Ohio, United States. Son of Lemuel Munson and Rachel (Call) Barnes.
Barnes, Lemuel Call was born on November 6, 1854 in Kirtland, Ohio, United States. Son of Lemuel Munson and Rachel (Call) Barnes.
Bachelor of Arts, Kalamazoo College, 1875. Graduate Newton Theological Institution, 1878 (Doctor of Divinity, Kalamazoo, and Bucknell, 1896).
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1878. Pastor First Church, Saint Paul, 1878-1882, First Church, Pittsburgh, 1882-1887, First Church, Newton, Massachusetts, 1887-1893, First Church, Pittsburgh, 1893-1902, First Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1902-1907. Field secretary American Baptist Home Mission Society, April 1, 1907-1917, secretary department English-speaking Missions and Indian Work, and secretary department of evangelism, 1917, also acting secretary department of Latin North America, 1918, and department of rural church work, 1922.
Retired, 1924.
Member of board of managers American Baptist Missionary Union, 1879-1907 (elected foreign secretary, 1891, but declined).
Married Mary Emelia Clark, January 2, 1879.